Making Wooden Lures for Trout- Build to Catch 

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I appreciate it; I was confident I could catch a trout, but I wasn't expecting one that size!

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I have a question i hope you can answer for me please. In a lot of your videos you use different size weights you made with a forester bit to determine the amount needed. I’m pretty sure you said you drilled holes in a piece of scrap wood. I recently tried using a piece of dry oak but couldn’t get them out. I drilled them about 1/4 to 3/8 deep depending on the diameter. Did you add a release agent to the wood mold or use a particular kind of wood? Thanks for your help. 🙂

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Thank you so much for watching, I really appreciate it! Sorry I didn't go over the tail hook very well. I just clipped some died goose wing feathers and tied them on. Not very fancy, but I was really just trying to get a little flash of orange to simulate a red shiner tail. I checked my instagram twice and could not find your message. I don't know what's going on with that, but yours is not the first message that I haven't gotten. Try sending it again or put it here if you like.

I spend at least that long making a lure. I do now track my time, but it includes recording and editing as well. A simple episode takes about 30 hours to put together. I'm sure I could be much faster if I were remaking a lure I've already done before or if I were making batches. But all mine are one-offs.

@@zimmtex It's colossal, but it's really worth it!!!

After fishing with these, I thought of a couple of tweaks. I agree that single hooks would be a good change. Thank you for your input and for watching!

@@zimmtex yeah I fished a lot of gold medal and Blue Ribbon trout streams in Colorado and in Michigan. I've used Lots barbless single hooks on crankbaits and Spinners because a lot of them streams are barbless single hooks. You might be shocked but your hookup ratio might even be better thought I'd pass that along

Hello! I am honored to have subscribers from all over the world. While I can't produce my content in every language, I will try to make it as universal as possible by showing what I do as carefully as I can. Thanks for watching!

As I pull a lure through the water and water flows around it, the shape of the head will change the action of the lure. If I make it more round, it will slice through the water more effortlessly because it's more 'aerodynamic'. But, if I make the head flat, it begins to act more like a lip would because the water has to travel farther to get around the head. So, the head is acting like a mini lip in this case. If you look at lipless crankbaits, you can see that they almost always have a flat surface on the head. Big glide baits will sometimes have a flat surface on the chin for the same reason. Great question! As for painting, you don't need the resin to help the paint stick. I typically put resin over foil first so that I can hide the seams on the foil. However, I am finding that I get better detail by painting a coat over the foil first, then painting over the resin just on the top & bottom. I highly recommend trying different things to find out what works best. Thanks for watching!

You are correct, I think you can get a pretty shiny result that way.

These were made out of poplar. Thanks for watching!

The through wire, hooks & lead keep it stable. I might even go with balsa wood to increase stability in faster water.

Hey Mike! Sorry I missed you, I was only in Colorado for a few days fishing along the Conejos. Thanks for the offer!

@@zimmtex no worries! Tight lines and keep up the videos they are always awesome!

That was the Conejos river. Thanks for watching!

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@@veoveo843 wood fish net

@@zimmtex I didn't find it. I only see the plastic type. Can you help me find it?

I'm not sure if I understand your question. I epoxy the wire into the wire slot, then fill the cut with InstaCure and baking soda. Thanks for watching!

Many of the silver paint makers recommend a black basecoat on their instructions to make the silver paint look better. Sorry I didn't clarify that in the video. Great question!

@@zimmtex Ok, another question then😊. Why the white is under the black? Is it necessary? Seems like overkill 🙃

@@PavelBuyevich It might be; I've always felt like I get the deepest colors over white.

Thanks for the input, I will turn down the sound some more when I use power tools from now on.